Al-Hariri’s Impostures is a twelfth-century collection of fifty tales written entirely in rhyme. Because of the rhyme, not to mention the riddles, puns, lipograms, and rare vocabulary, it has routinely been called untranslatable. Yet translators into Hebrew, German, and Russian have succeeded in re-creating it in their languages. A newContinue Reading
Michael Cooperson will give an online lecture on ‘Learning Arabic Backwards: Was it Absolutely Terrifying?’ at Harvard’s CMES, drawing on his experience of translating al-Hariri’s “Maqamat.”Continue Reading
In this talk in the “The Middle East in Cambridge Series”, Michael Cooperson will discuss his translation of al-Hariri’s “Impostures”.Continue Reading
Maghrebi works dominated this year’s poetry longlis, and two of these have moved on to the six-book poetry shortlist.Continue Reading
” I’d say that one does learn that medieval adab has a lot in common with Gertrude Stein, Vikram Seth, the OuLiPo, or anyone, really, who does odd things with language; and that may be a fresh and useful insight for many readers.”Continue Reading
utstanding Maghrebi collections have made the twelve-book longlist for the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry.Continue Reading
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